Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. At first it seems like everything is good. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. The assailant falls several stories to his death. At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God." However, dont go out of your way to check in at Cold Creek Manor. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. Later that night as a storm approaches, Leah returns to the house alone, having been informed by the children the location of a deep well on the property, called the Devil's Throat. Directed by Mike Figgis. Director Mike Figgis (who in the past brought us Leaving Las Vegas and the brilliant film Timecode) really should have his camera taken away from him. In all movies involving city people who move to the country, there is an unwritten rule that everybody down at the diner knows all about the history of the new property and the secrets of its former owners. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. *Moderate 21 offers from $7.49. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. SMOKING Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. GUNS/WEAPONS Coopers Documentary looked promising. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. Leah is shown in her underwear. It's implied that Cooper realizes what happened with Dale's family immediately after his own family left, and Dale attacked within the following 12 hours. He was trying to get better reception on his walkie talkie to alert the sheriff, and he didn't know the killer was in the area. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Sharon Stone is a great actress and does well with the part of Leah, but she isnt given much to stand out, and ends up playing a stereotypical role that keeps Stone from excelling. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. It just doesnt make sense. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. New York, Burbank, CA 91521. I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. But he has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. He's just looking to get back on his feet. Cooper's phone line suddenly goes dead. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. None. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. We see Jesse with a paintball rifle. So he fires him. Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. 40. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. When evil Dale Massie just stands there in the woods and doesn't push Cooper Tilson down the well, he stops being a killer and becomes an excuse for the movie to toy with us -- and it's always better when a thriller toys with the victims instead of the audience. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Heres how it works. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. In Cold Creek Manor, a family tired of the noise, traffic and crime of the city decides to move to the country. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE 1 hr 58 min. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Written by Richard Jefferies. Bad writing lets the characters make bad decisions, hiring the former house owner (who broke in to have a look around) to fix the pool instead of asking him to leave or calling police, or worse, characters dont pass on what easily seems to be crucial information to other characters. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. We see a Jeep that's been set on fire. Read full review 40 As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. Wanting to escape New York life for the countryside, Cooper (Quaid) and Leah Tilson (Stone), along with their two children, move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. Extreme The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. It was hard to understand the motivations of the characters because the characters are paper thin. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". Question: When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). gtag('js', new Date()); VIOLENCE Quaid plays the part well, and Stephen Dorff is great as the slimy Dale, but Dale Massie is a walking red flag to run away from. Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. Its a hustle-bustle life, the pressures of which reach a crescendo when a near-miss in heavy traffic endangers one of the children. For Violence, Language and Some Sexuality, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, The Mandalorian Tries to Find Its Place in Third Season, The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. [9], Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film "a woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. Plot points are so easily predictable it isnt funny: Coopers daughter Kristin (played by Kristin Stewart) gets a horse, so something must happen to that horse and it does. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Dale pushes Leah into the well but Cooper manages to pull her out. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. The trailer looked interesting, and I was always game for a Dennis Quaid movie. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? He needs to get the Manor back for his father and his own mental sake, and he will do just about anything to do so. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. The noise. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? An intruder terrorizes the Tilsons, chasing them through their blacked-out home, wielding a killing hammer (Im gonna bash your skulls in and throw you down The Devils Throat). Leah wants to give Dale the benefit of the doubt when suspicions about him arise, and later apologizes to her husband for doubting his instincts. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as Cooper and Leah Tilson, who get fed up with the city and move to the country, purchasing a property that looks like the House of the Seven Gables crossed with the Amityville Horror. Blood/Gore If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. The lights go out in the house and Cooper and Leah hear someone smash a window and then break things in the house (we see that as it occurs). The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". We see bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. "COLD CREEK MANOR" In their new home, which is beautiful but in need of work, the Tilsons find out that even though they are the new owners, the house has a story to it. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). "Cold Creek Manor," starring Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid, is true to all the worn-out clichs as it depicts the tale of a family being terrorized by a madman. Moderate [Spoiler Warning] We eventually see physical evidence of this crime in the form of decomposed bodies that had been thrown into a deep well called The Devils Throat. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO After a chase, Dale corners Cooper and Leah atop the roof, and openly declares his intent to kill them and dump their bodies down the Devil's Throat like he did to his family. [7], Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. A series of unusual incidents start to occur; Cooper is pursued by an unknown car, multiple venomous snakes are found in the property, and Kristen's horse is mysteriously killed, leading Cooper to suspect Dale. Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) is a working mom who we're told spends about 90% of the time working, and 10% of the time being a mom. Several people smoke cigarettes. Box office. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . 4.6 out of 5 stars. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. RYAN WILSON plays her younger brother who somewhat becomes obsessed with a dark poem written by the boy who lived in the house before him. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Also, the cast is solid. Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. No, but everybody in the audience does. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. The film drags at times and the audience is almost guaranteed to be ahead of the film by the end of the first act, but Figgis tells us these are no-nos for the genre. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. I don't think someone could fly out from NYC and come help him within that timeframe. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. Why did the husband leave his wife alone in the woods, at night. NY 10036. As haunted-house . The movie plays like an all-star episode of This Old House for the first hour, a telenovela for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. One then hits the third several times with a pick-like device, eventually causing the skylight to break and the third person to fall through it, another skylight and then hard to the floor below (where he's presumably dead). Heavy It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. Miscellaneous people drink beer. None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. Violence We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. He uses some profanity. Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. Have you ever wondered what happened in your house before you lived there? This is the question posed by the marketing for Cold Creek Manor, a poor attempt at a heart-pounding thriller that instead has you wondering Where can this film go wrong next? Its all Sharon Stones fault. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. This house is going to need a lot of work. He also suffocates his bedridden father. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Cooper is convinced that Dale is responsible, acting out of spite. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. So there's this family in New York City, but they want to get away to someplace less hectic, so they buy a run-down old house in the country. One afternoon after a heated argument with Dale, Cooper finds a dental retainer along with human teeth in the gravel of his driveway, which he compares to old photos and finds it matches that of Dale's daughter. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. At Bay Area theaters.) Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. All Rights Reserved, Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimer $29.1 million [1] Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. asks a helpful local. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Smoking They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Who the heck expects a country hick jailbird type character to be European about his cigarettes? 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from Cold Creek Manor. Two featurettes are included. Again, why wasnt this clarified in the film? DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. STEPHEN DORFF plays an ex-con who returns to the manor to work on it for the new owners, but then shows his true colors of wanting to get the house back for himself. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). Im eager to see what she does next. But no. If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. Next week, a look back at Oliver Stones Nixon. Cooper accidentally punches his wife in the face. Kill.Switch (2003) Resident Evil 5 (2009) Grand Theft Auto III (2001) People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. 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